Reading Aloud: Preface to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, 1855 edition.

The Preface to the 1855 edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Read by Pat Tully, Ketchikan Public Library.

[@robertwilkscomposer3726]

Thank you for this excellent reading and for introducing me to this marvelous essay. I look forward to spending much more time plumbing its depths. There is something about Whitman's poetry that synthesizes art and philosophy in a way that speaks to me deeply.

[@EmmaNorin01]

This was great! I had to read this for school and had trouble with connecting with the story by just reading it myself, but you really helped me feel a connection to the text. Thank you!

[@ketchikanpubliclibrary]

Thank you for your comment!

[@Richard-il6wc]

Thank you so much for this reading❤. And you read it so beautifuly❤. I was searching for the specific lines that come soon after 11:00. To be with powerful, uneducated men and women. The entire spread from 11:00 to 12:30ish minutes. My gratitude. ❤😊

[@ketchikanpubliclibrary]

Thank you!

[@nialongo]

Awesome reading! Thank you for your time and effort in making this!

[@anaq720]

It was great, thank you for the upload.

[@davidrandall929]

She left out the line " Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations"

[@chente.r1969]

She shared and she had me at Walt Whitman..

[@vhyomet620]

Marvellous.

[@mariomicallef9243]

many lines were cut out or changed

[@lcampbell3733]

Why have you missed out such large portions?

[@ketchikanpubliclibrary]

In the 1855 edition I read from, this was the entire preface. We try to keep the readings to 30 minutes to an hour, but we indicate in the description if we have to leave anything out.